ais523 wrote: > I would strongly prefer it if rule 2149 was amended the other way, to > make failed attempts to perform acts legal (e.g. what happens if a > contest is decontestified but the contestmaster still has to try to > award points).
Easy argument for EXCUSED for failing to award them, especially if you're making a good-faith effort to re-contestify the contest. > I am a roleplayer, among other things, and attempting to > perform actions is very distinct from making statements (speech acts are > just the method by which they're performed); likewise, in nearly all > other environments, the performing of an act has nothing to do with > making a statement. (In codenomics, for instance, there are not speech > acts, but instead all rules that allow something to be performed specify > a mechanism for doing so; even in B Nomic, some actions used to be > performed by writing specific pieces of text in public messages which > were parsed by computers.) Rule 478 explicitly defines "by announcement". Furthermore, the real point here is that a scam depending solely on saying "I do X" when it isn't successful is just as boring as a scam depending solely on saying "X is true" when it isn't.
